Asun Friere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A canonical use of the conditional operator is in
> pluralising words, (eg. '%s dollar' % n + 's' if n!=1 else '').
That fails for n == 1. So what is best?
for i in range(4):
print '%d thing' % i + ('s' if i != 1 else '')
for i in range(4):
print '%d thing%s' % (i, ('s', '')[i==1])
for i in range(4):
print '%d thing%s' % (i, 's' if i != 1 else '')
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